Text: Lamentations 3:22,23
22- “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”
23- “They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
- The prophet Jeremiah wrote Lamentations in a time of grief and national mourning, after the once great city of Jerusalem fell to Babylon.
- This book describes great anguish and great hope in poetic form.
- The main theme of the book is God’s judgment on Judah’s sin as well as His compassion for His people.
- The book of Lamentations contains laments or loud cries for Jerusalem and many expressions of anguish and pain, but in our text chapter 3, right in the middle of the book, there is a beautiful passage of confidence and hope.
Let’s take a closer look at our text:
1. Lord’s mercies:
- Lovingkindness of God to withhold punishment that we rightfully deserve because of our sin.
- It’s because He loves us that we are not consumed.
- Even on our worst days He still loves us.
- When you fail, falter and stumble He’s the closest.
- He doesn’t love us because we are clean, He cleans us up because he loves us.
- Ephesians 2:5 tells us, “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved).”
2. Compassion fail not:
- God’s concern for us never goes away.
- His ear never gets tired of hearing you cry out to him.
- His lovingkindness is constant
- Psalm 46:1 tells us, “God is our refuge and strength, and ever present help in trouble.”
- When my wife or family get sick of hearing me God’s ear is tuned to my cry.
- When I can’t find sleep in the early morning hours my God’s compassions are available for they fail not.
- I have accesss to the Father!
- Hebrews 4:16, “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need.”
3. New every morning:
- Every morning is a new day which demonstrates God’s grace; a new beginning in which gloom must flee.
- God’s glory and grace is new and refreshing every day.
- With the break of each new day comes a fresh batch of compassion
- His mercies will never run out.
- His grace is sufficient!
- God assures the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9, “My grace is sufficient, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”